Zero Trust - SASE - Infrastructure Security Consultant

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

6d•$54,400 - $205,800•Onsite

About The Position

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond and recover along all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our clients’ needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people use the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle.

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of experience with Prisma Access and Zscaler and /or experience and knowledge with network security concepts and architectures around Zero Trust and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), RBI (Remote Browser Isolation) , Security Service Edge and micro-segmentation
Minimum of 3 years managing projects using a standardized set of project management principles
Minimum of 2 years of technical writing and report generation
Minimum 3 years of experience Enterprise IT security risk assessments and related frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000 series, NIST 800 Series, COBIT, IT General Controls, etc.)
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Travel will be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 75 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Nice To Haves

Experience in IT Security Testing (e.g., penetration testing, web application security assessments, vulnerability assessments and technical security assessments
Experience in Identity and Access Management
Experience in Infrastructure & Cloud Security (virtualized environments a plus)
Experience with application development

Responsibilities

Help develop, foster and sell network security projects
Responsible for migrating client to Network Managed Service. Ensure client deliverables are produced on time according to specified project deliverables and scope
Drive the development and upskill of junior resources
Design and deliver network security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offerings and solutions for clients as well as the following: Support the delivery of Accenture's security offerings related to cloud security, including security governance (security policies and procedures), security strategy (security planning), risk (risk assessments and management), cloud data protection (classification, encryption, tokenization), cloud-based identity and access management, technology/provider-specific cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Softlayer, VMware) and monitoring/analytics for and in the cloud
Ability to interpret relevance of security controls to relevant compliance with legal, best-practice, and regulatory requirements for cloud environments.
Developing and presenting at industry conferences as an expert in the Cloud Security field
Lead the growth, development and support junior cloud security resources
Understand engagements, business drivers and security enablement opportunities as it relates to our client's business
Demonstrate ability to lead and manage business development / proposal efforts
Business development responsibilities around cloud & network security including origination, capture and relationship development
Ability to translate technical cloud security requirements into business terms for executive stakeholders
Conduct cloud and infrastructure security strategy, readiness and discovery assessments; be familiar with cloud security frameworks, compliance requirements and security operations
Deliver services that meet Accenture Project quality specifications
Ability to take initiative to communicate, interact, and collaborate with others to ensure that all aspects of a task are addressed